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Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Methods & Research is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
A Partial Simulation Study of Phantom Effects in Multilevel Analysis of School Effects: The Case of School Socioeconomic Composition	156
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	78
Recurrent Multinomial Models for Categorical Sequences	52
A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis	51
Improving Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measures on Gender and Age Stereotypes by Means of Piloting Methods	36
Evidence of Validity Does not Rule out Systematic Bias: A Commentary on Nomological Noise and Cross-Cultural Invariance	32
Aligning Interviewing with Process Tracing	29
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	28
Using Google Maps to Generate Organizational Sampling Frames	27
When Corporations Are People: Agent Talk and the Development of Organizational Actorhood, 1890–1934	27
Causal Decomposition Analysis With Time-Varying Mediators: Designing Individualized Interventions to Reduce Social Disparities	27
A Primer on Deep Learning for Causal Inference	24
Contextual Text Coding: A Mixed-methods Approach for Large-scale Textual Data	23
The Living Codebook: Documenting the Process of Qualitative Data Analysis	23
The Social Autopsy	19
Sharing Big Video Data: Ethics, Methods, and Technology	18
Linking Input Inequality and Outcome Inequality	17
Attendance, Completion, and Heterogeneous Returns to College: A Causal Mediation Approach	17
Addressing Non-ignorable Panel Attrition Using External Population Data: Analysis of Demographic Events From Survey Data	17
A New Approach to Detecting Cheating in Sensitive Surveys: The Cheating Detection Triangular Model	15
Understanding the “Grievance Studies Affair” Papers and Why They Should Be Reinstated: A Response to Geoff Cole	12
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	11
Video Data Analysis and Police Body-Worn Camera Footage	11
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	10
The Effect of Question Positioning on Data Quality in Web Surveys	9

Estimating Causal Effects of Multi-Valued Treatments Accounting for Network Interference: Immigration Policies and Crime Rates	9
Dynamics of Health Expectancy: An Introduction to the Multiple Multistate Method (MMM)	9
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies	9
Theory Building, Case Dependence, and Researchers’ Bounded Rationality: An Illustration From Studies of Innovation Diffusion	9
The Design and Optimality of Survey Counts: A Unified Framework Via the Fisher Information Maximizer	9
The Potential for Using a Shortened Version of the Everyday Discrimination Scale in Population Research with Young Adults: A Construct Validation Investigation	9
Mobilizing the Masses: Measuring Resource Mobilization on Twitter	8
A Theory of Higher Order Interactions Between Sensitive Variables: Empirical Evidences and an Application to a Variety of Smoking	8
Path Analysis for Binary Random Variables	8
Estimating the Uncertainty of a Small Area Estimator Based on a Microsimulation Approach	8
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	8
Longitudinal QCA: Integrating Time Through Change-Based Intervals (CBIs) and a Flexible Lag Condition (FLC)	7
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	7
Surprising Causes: Propensity-adjusted Treatment Scores for Multimethod Case Selection	7
Multiple imputation of partially observed covariates in discrete-time survival analysis	7
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables	6
Bounding Causes of Effects With Mediators	6
Exploring and Correcting the Bias in the Estimation of the Gini Measure of Inequality	6
How Valid Are Trust Survey Measures? New Insights From Open-Ended Probing Data and Supervised Machine Learning	6
A Generalized Ordered Logit Model to Accommodate Multiple Rating Scales	6
Estimation and sensitivity analysis for causal decomposition in health disparity research	6
A Tale of Twin Dependence: A New Multivariate Regression Model and an FGLS Estimator for Analyzing Outcomes With Network Dependence	5
Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	5
The Impact of Survey Mode Design and Questionnaire Length on Measurement Quality	5
Do Quantitative and Qualitative Research Reflect two Distinct Cultures? An Empirical Analysis of 180 Articles Suggests “no”	5
Why Measurement Invariance is Important in Comparative Research. A Response to Welzel et al. (2021)	5
A Meta-analysis of Studies on the Performance of the Crosswise Model	5
An Empirical Comparison of Four Generalized Trust Scales: Test–Retest Reliability, Measurement Invariance, Predictive Validity, and Replicability	5
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries	5
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey	5
Fear Not Scarcity but Inequality, Not Poverty but Instability	5
Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis With Bounding and Interactions	5
A Comparison of Three Popular Methods for Handling Missing Data: Complete-Case Analysis, Inverse Probability Weighting, and Multiple Imputation	5
Measuring the Nature of Individual Sequences	4
Post-Instrument Bias in Linear Models	4
The Additional Effects of Adaptive Survey Design Beyond Post-Survey Adjustment: An Experimental Evaluation	4
Social Encounters and the Worlds Beyond: Putting Situationalism to Work for Qualitative Interviews	4
Are National Family Surveys Biased toward the Happy Family? A Multiactor Analysis of Selective Survey Nonresponse	4
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study	4
The Effects of Omitting Components in a Multilevel Model With Social Network Effects	4
Taking Causal Heterogeneity Seriously: Implications for Case Choice and Case Study-Based Generalizations	4
Comparing Methods for Estimating Demographics in Racially Polarized Voting Analyses	4
The Problem of Scaling in Exponential Random Graph Models	4
Inter-Rater Reliability Methods in Qualitative Case Study Research	4
Network Diffusion Under Homophily and Consolidation as a Mechanism for Social Inequality	3
Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis	3
Politics as Usual? Measuring Populism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism in U.S. Presidential Campaigns (1952–2020) with Neural Language Models	3
Against the Mainstream: On the Limitations of Non-Invariance Diagnostics: Response to Fischer et al. and Meuleman et al.	3
Optimizing Consistency and Coverage in Configurational Causal Modeling	3
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate	3

Combining Multiple Organizational-level Databases: An Empirical Evaluation of Different Matching Methods	3
Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing	3
Improving Estimates Accuracy of Voter Transitions. Two New Algorithms for Ecological Inference Based on Linear Programming	3
A Method for Estimating Individual Socioeconomic Status of Twitter Users	3
Promises and Limits of Using Targeted Social Media Advertising to Sample Global Migrant Populations: Nigerians at Home and Abroad	3
Seeded Topic Models in Digital Archives: Analyzing Interpretations of Immigration in Swedish Newspapers, 1945–2019	3